Engineering works executed by Braithwaite & Co. Ltd, West Bromwich, c1935 - Prudential Assurance Company offices, Birmingham
A page from a substantial book illustrating the steel work and other engineering contracts carried out by the West Bromwich based Braithwaites. Founded in 1884 as Braithwaite & Kirk the company prospered mainly due to a healthy export business in the 'colonies' as well as in the home market and indeed in 1913 they opened an Indian branch as well as later acquiring additional works in Newport, Monmouthshire.
This spread shows the then new Prudential Assurance Company's Birmingham offices in Colmore Row, opposite the railway station on Snow Hill and indeed the text alludes to the fact that this building was partially over a 'main line railway' as the GWR tunnels run under this site. The building is still with us (something of an amazing thing in much mauled Birmingham) and indeed the Halifax "Building Society" are still, I think, in the same shop. To the left can be seen the ZIP dry cleaners and the corner of what I think was the Kardomah Cafe. One unit is still being fitted out and this work is being underaken by a well known Birmingham company of shopfitters who are still on the go - Edmonds. I recall their offices were not far away in Hockley?
Engineering works executed by Braithwaite & Co. Ltd, West Bromwich, c1935 - Prudential Assurance Company offices, Birmingham
A page from a substantial book illustrating the steel work and other engineering contracts carried out by the West Bromwich based Braithwaites. Founded in 1884 as Braithwaite & Kirk the company prospered mainly due to a healthy export business in the 'colonies' as well as in the home market and indeed in 1913 they opened an Indian branch as well as later acquiring additional works in Newport, Monmouthshire.
This spread shows the then new Prudential Assurance Company's Birmingham offices in Colmore Row, opposite the railway station on Snow Hill and indeed the text alludes to the fact that this building was partially over a 'main line railway' as the GWR tunnels run under this site. The building is still with us (something of an amazing thing in much mauled Birmingham) and indeed the Halifax "Building Society" are still, I think, in the same shop. To the left can be seen the ZIP dry cleaners and the corner of what I think was the Kardomah Cafe. One unit is still being fitted out and this work is being underaken by a well known Birmingham company of shopfitters who are still on the go - Edmonds. I recall their offices were not far away in Hockley?